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Themes labels used: climate change, environmental collapse, human survival, planetary stewardship, technology and ethics, legacy, sacrifice, hope and despair, idealism vs pragmatism, politics and climate, home and belonging, migration, escape vs responsibility, grief, regret, futility, human cost, intergenerational trauma, memory, love of Earth, limits of technology, morality, fate vs choice, humanity

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Feral Creatures

Kira Jane Buxton · 2021 · Hollow Kingdom

A foul-mouthed crow protects the last human child while the post-apocalyptic animal world grows stranger and deadlier.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · nature vs humanity · interconnectedness · hope · loss · survival · parenthood · letting go · identity · acceptance · balance · cooperation · mutual aid · grief · love · technology critique · consumerism critique · animal welfare · human responsibility · coming of age · mental health

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The Survival Game

Nicky Singer · 2018

In a climate-ravaged future, a teenage refugee must travel north with a silent boy while borders, law, and conscience close in.

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Themes labels: survival · humanity · empathy · hope · love · morality · border regimes · refugees · migration · climate change · overpopulation · scarcity · home · identity · trauma · memory · kindness · dehumanization · law vs conscience · social control · belonging · responsibility · loss · family · justice · nationalism · euthanasia · resource rationing · resilience

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The Afterlife Project

Tim Weed · 2025

Two timelines race against human extinction: one scientist survives the deep future, while others search for a way to continue the species.

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Themes labels: climate collapse · human extinction · hope and despair · stewardship · interconnectedness · ecological responsibility · legacy · resilience · meaning-making · ethics · scientific responsibility · love · faith · nature persists · human fragility · endangered future · overconsumption · civilizational collapse · mortality · time

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Doggerland

Ben Smith · 2019

On a remote North Sea wind farm, two maintenance men cling to routine, secrets, and a possible path to escape.

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Themes labels: loneliness · hope · survival · nature versus humanity · climate change · responsibility · sacrifice · escape · memory · mourning · time · entropy · loss · futility · purpose · isolation · resilience · civilizational decline · human insignificance · environmental damage

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After World

Debbie Urbanski · 2023

An AI archivist records the last human on Earth as civilization ends and the planet rewilds.

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Themes labels: climate collapse · human extinction · environmental stewardship · rewilding · survival · loneliness · motherhood · memory · storytelling · identity · posthumanism · love · grief · sacrifice · ethics of AI · humanity · ecological guilt · digital immortality · choice vs coercion

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The Forest on the Edge of Time

Jasmin Kirkbride · 2026

Two amnesiac time travelers in Ancient Athens and a dying future must communicate in dreams to save humanity.

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Themes labels: climate change · ecological collapse · memory · identity · family · duty · responsibility · hope · collective action · butterfly effect · history changing the future · humanity survival · philosophy · politics · citizenship · classism · slavery · misogyny · homophobia · tyranny · religious thought · grief · faith · small actions · environmental urgency · human nature · choice and consequence · past and future · civilizational collapse

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The Annual Migration of Clouds

Premee Mohamed · 2021 · The Annual Migration of Clouds

In a climate-ravaged future, a parasite-infected young woman must choose between her community and a dangerous chance away.

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Themes labels: survival · community · autonomy · bodily autonomy · choice · responsibility · self-determination · growing up · leaving home · individualism vs collectivism · ecological collapse · climate change · memory · regret · hope · fear of the future · duty · opportunity cost · intergenerational harm · rebuilding · adaptation · faith · love · loss · anger · dependency · care labor

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell · 2022

Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental grief · ecological stewardship · adaptation vs mitigation · resilience · hope · loss · memory · community · interdependence · collectivism · survival · future generations · small acts · art and survival · beauty and wonder · knowledge preservation · human impact on nature · sacrifice · mourning · rewilding · sustainable living · patience · long game · social networks

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The Thousand Earths

Stephen Baxter · 2022

A deep-time SF epic intercuts a star-faring journey through future humanity with a world racing toward collapse.

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Themes labels: survival · hope · fate · climate change · migration · resource scarcity · human persistence · cosmic insignificance · identity · memory · future of humanity · ecological collapse · civilizational change · time · exploration · conservation · moral ambiguity · human nature · progress · endurance

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The High House

Jessie Greengrass · 2022

Four people shelter in a prepped hilltop house as climate collapse and rising seas force them to survive together.

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Themes labels: climate change · survival · motherhood · parenthood · sacrifice · love · loss · family bonds · responsibility · preparedness · collective failure · privilege · survivor guilt · inevitability · hope vs despair · human dependence · care ethics · extinction · nature-human conflict

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Death's End

Liu Cixin · 2016 · Remembrance of Earth's Past

A female aerospace engineer wakes into humanity’s fragile peace with aliens and helps decide the fate of civilization.

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Themes labels: survival · existentialism · cosmic insignificance · human nature · time · death · hope and despair · arrogance · compassion · sacrifice · deterrence · civilizational evolution · fear of extinction · knowledge and power · moral dilemma · cooperation vs competition · memory · the universe

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Drømmen om et tre

Maja Lunde · 2022 · Klimakvartetten

In a climate-ravaged future, a boy guarding a seed vault in Svalbard faces catastrophe as another survivor heads north.

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Themes labels: climate crisis · environmental responsibility · biodiversity · human impact · survival ethics · future generations · family loyalty · collective responsibility · nature vs humanity · moral dilemma · hope and despair · resource scarcity · inheritance

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